It’s in the notebooks and sketchpads
that artist Shiavax Chavda comes alive in
all his splendid variety
Geeta Doctor
He’s once again that young boy from the distant coastal town of Navsari entranced with capturing the world around him with the lines of his pen. They swirl across the page with the grace of the fishermen throwing their black nets into the waves of the Arabian Sea at daybreak catching the leaping fish. Or bound across the straight trunks of a coconut tree like a toddy-tapper clambering up to tap the sap from the thick stem of the green fronds. Or, the brush strokes capture the lilt of the music that Shiavax Chavda heard long before he set out......